Fisheries Buybacks provides the reader with an overview of buybacks and the issues surrounding them as well as a synthesis of the literature on this subject of growing importance.

Fisheries Buybacks are an important strategy being implemented globally in the efforts to produce a more sustainable and profitable fisheries industry.

Contents

1. Lessons from Fisheries Buybacks
2. Do Buyback Programs Make Sense?
3. Capacity Reduction and Productivity: A Profit Decomposition for the Australian South East Trawl Fishery
4. A Case Study of Fishing Vessel Capacity Management Public Buyout Schemes: Community Experience through the Multi-Annual Guidance Programmes and Ways Forward
5. Vessel Decommissioning in Danish Fisheries
6. Decommissioning Schemes and Capacity Adjustment: A Preliminary Analysis of the French Experience
7. The Decommissioning Scheme for the Italian Clam Fishery
8. Driftnets Buyback Program: A Case of Institutional Failure
9. The Impact of the EU Buyback Scheme on the Italian Fleet: The Northern and Central Adriatic Sea Bottom Trawlers Case
10. Buyback Programs for Fishing Vessels in Norway
11. The Effects of Buyback Programs in the British Columbia Salmon Fishery
12. Effectiveness of Vessel Buyback Programs on the Offshore Fishery in Taiwan
13. The Texas Inshore Bay and Bait License Buyback Program
14. Buyback Programs and Industry Restructuring in Fisheries
15. A Case Study of New England Groundfish Fishing Capacity Reduction

Index

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